HAROLD B. LEE LIBRARY
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVSRSiTY
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GREEN GENEALOGY
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GENERAL FAMILY HISTORY
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71 Green genealogy and general family history.
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11KVEALED BY TIIK RESEARCHES OF CHARLES It. GREEN,
LYNDON, OSAGE (H)UNTY. KANSAS.
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THE FAMILY RECORD OF
Ezra Green, Born January 30, 1754,
Amy Church Green, Born July 21, 1759.
Their children wen;:
Clarinda Green, Born Nov. 6, 1777,
Lucy Green, Born Sept. 24, 1779,
Theron Green, Born August 25, 1782,
Betsey Green, Born May 21, 1784,
Urana Green, Born Jany. 23, 1787,
Sellick Green, Born Sept. 13, 1789,
Sally Green, Born July 17, 1791,
Charles Green, Born April 27, 1794,
One son, Born March 6, 1796,
Fzra Green, Jr., Born Oct. 21, 1797,
Fleazer Green, Born May 16, 1800.
Died only <» <t;iys old and not numbered.
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This family record of births is drawn from the family bible
of E&ra Green, which is now in possession of his grand child,
Eleazer Green, Attorncy-at-I.aw, Jamestown. i\. Y. Many
valuable papers, letters, hooks, records, etc., belonging to
Ezra Green's family, inherited by his son, Elea/er Green,
with whom the parents lived in old age, at Remsen, were
destroyed by lire which consumed the home of Broughton W.
Green, at Harmony, Chautauqua count)', N Y., along about
1885. And from correspondence with the above-named
cousin, B. \Y. Green, eldest son of Eleazer Green, who in
die same household lor iS years had the companionship and
admonitions of his honored and respected grandmother, Ann-
Church Green, wife of Ezra Green, I am indebted to for the
most of this family history. Mrs. Urania Wooster Donovan,
of South Lyon, Mich., another cousin, grand child of Lucy
Green. Wooster, has interviewed her uncle, Samuel C. Woos-
ter, who, a child of Lucy's, now 88 years old, remembers very
much of his grand parents Ezra and Am)' Green. Matilda
Plumb, born 1805, eldest daughter of Clarinda Green Miller,
living- in July 1891 with her grandson,. G. H. I\ Gould, Lyon's
balls, Lewis county, N. Y, has also contributed some recol-
lections. Grove Winter Green, son of Theron Green, born
at Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., 1808, is still alive at his home in
Springfield. Ohio, aged 85; also (lis sister, Mary Green ln-
gersoll. at the same place. With these elderly cousins to re-
fer to, and very man)- old letters inherited from my father,
El ias Green, Wakeman, Ohio, son of Charles Green, who
settled in Milan, Ohio, 1833, I am constrained to offer you the
following family history:
GENERAL FAMILY HISTORY.
Jacob Hoffner, of Cincinnati, O., who was yet alive, over
90 years old, at last accounts, a man of broad views, love of
Country, and considerable wealth* married as his first wife the
late Sarah Canlield, daughter of Urana (ireen Can field, ol
Litchfield, Conn. In their foreign travels these distinguished
kinspeople looked up the old homesteads of the Churches and
Greens in England. Absence ^i ;mv written data hinders
any more mention ol 'the ancestry in Old England; Mr. lloll-
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blood ever crossed the Atlantic than that of the Churches of
Connecticut — among which was the family of Samuel Church,
of Litchfield, who was the father of our grandmother. Amy
Church, the youngest of nine children, born July 24, 1759.
1 [er father built the lirst paper mill and manufactured the first
writing paper in the state -a christian temperance man, who
died at the earl)- age of 45 and lies buried in the Bethlehem
church yard --Amy was but 17 months old Her eldest
brother, Joshua, was a captain in the Revolutionary war.
wounded and a cripple for life — -and his boys had birth-marks
on their left shoulder blades similar to the scar on the la-
ther's. Amy's mother remarried to a Mr. Bradley, but 46
years later died , ml was buried beside her first husband.
Of the ancestry of Ezra Green little is known, that 1 have
been able to get hold of. Tradition says that early in 1700
three brothers came over from England— one settling in
New Jersey, one in Pennsylvania and Kzra's father in 'Con-
necticut. ' Ezra is supposed to have been born near Bethle-
hem, Litchfield county, Conn., Jany. 30, 1754. We ri ay
conjecture the stirring times of his youth; the Stamp Act and
the Tea Act of 1765-67 made things interesting those days
in those New England towns, and lads of 16, while in those
days occupying only the Lack seats at their public meetings,
were growing into soldiers of '76, and we are not surprised
to find him a soldier in the Continental arm)- under Col.
Benj. I human (41I1 Kegt. Conn. Troops) ^marching in May
and June 1775 Lo the rescue of the "( Ireen ^fountain Hoys,'1
and to save from recapture the important posts of 'I icondero-
ga and Crown Point, on the northern frontier, while other
companies of this same regiment went down to battle at Bun-
ker Hill, I une 17th. There was much sickness in the army
and as their term of service was only six months we find
them coming home in November 1775. Again he enlisted
under Capt. Smith in Col. I*. B. Bradley's regiment, in 1776.
and served six months. This Baliallion was in Wadworth's
Brigade and was employed in defence of the state especially,
from invasion along the sound, ami some pi it even as far
south as Bergen Heights and Jersey City. Ezra (ireen en-
listed J une 23d. discharged Dec j8, 1776. Some lime this
year, (1770) it is supposed, I'./ra (ireen and Amy Church
were united ill the holy bonds ot wedlock, Bethlehem, Conn.
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In '77 Ezra Green did service for his country 5 weeks under
Capt. Enos Hawley in Col. Moseleys regiment; in repelling
some invasion, and at another time the same season was out
a week to Danbury for service. As the Adjt. GenTs report
C)f Connecticut men in the Revolution and war of 1812 speaks
of some 50 Greens who used no fiiiale "e" one has to study
carefully these records, as I found one Ezra Green, a serg't in
Capt. Brown's company of Stanford, who enlisted March, 'jj
for three years, and died Feb. 12, 1778. 1 also find by such
researches that there was one Eleazer Green in that war, a
drafted man who saw service several monts of 'y^ along the
sound. This is supposed to be a brother of Kfcfa, as it is a
family name. The Churches took a very active part in this
war as in the war of 1812. This is not to be wondered at, as
we find in our New England history one Capt. Bertji Church,
born in Plymouth, 1639, and captain in the forces who cap-
tured King Philip; distinguished for piety, valor and integ-
rity.
Many anecdotes are preserved in tradition by our Green
descendants, of those days of KL'yb". Grandfather Ezra want-
ed a breakfast one morning bad enough to pay $150 for it,
and after he got home a yearling calf cost him $1 13- in Con-
tinental money.
When Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Oct, 1781,
grandfather obtained of the Hessians two silver knee buckles
and two silver shoe buckles and a horse pistol with a flint
lock. Oth r war relics with these were preserved by the
family for 50 years or more, and at the death of Grandmoth-
er Amy were presented to her grandson, Broughton Green,
then a young man of 18, who soon after lost them while re-
moving to his father's new home in Western New York, none
regretting it more than the custodian of the gifts. Journey-
ing by means of the canal boat, one morning when the chest
was found missing the boatman said that as they passed under
alow bridge it had been smashed and swept off -into the wa-
ters. How true this story was the)' could not stop to ascer-
tain, but nothing was ever heard of the chest again with its
valuable relics, While regretting the loss of these worldly
effects, our ancestors left something that was more valuable
to us than silver or gold— they left names of untarnished rep-
any gfcat amount „| ' " disposit.on to- accumulate
years ait.rTc 4r h ,X V" ^""T^ Fo? " '"»'
-ivcd a ,,,,„ un;::„;;^Lt'w ';;;,;r '""'• lia™« «■-
38. has a faLly of 6 ^ d en "^ &PT> **n "f
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Another good anecdote told of these Bethlehem days, of
the n-ady wit ot our grandmother, who could joke and jest
with the smartest. She and her oldest sons and daughters
were going to meeting one Sunday, and meeting some one
with a double team, the whiltletree caught the cutter box in
such a way as to tear it all to pieces, leaving the running gear
whole. She got her sheep skin and a blanket onto it and
went on, but had not gone far before the)- met some of the
village aristocracy going out lor a Sunday pleasure ride. One
of them says, 'Therein Mother Green going to heaven on a
sheep shin " As quick as thought the answer came: "I'd
rather go to heaven on a sheep skin than to hell in a car-
riage." The speaker was so taken aback that at the hrst ho-
tel lie treated the part)-. Grandmother never wanted to hear
an)- of descendants brag. She used to tell the story ol the
qualities of the two dogs: "Brag and Holdfast." The nine-
teen years that she lived after lizra, her husband, died gave
her a chance to admonish many of her grandchildren, and
she must have had a good many, as five of her own chil-
dren lived around at convenient distance when she was X>
years old.
Grandmother (ireen was very punctual in attending church
and all her girls were professors of religion all Methodists
except Urana, who was a Baptist. Aunt Urana was the best
versed in the bible of any in die family. She could repeat the
bible from Genesis to Revelation. Grandmother could tell
what book I was rending aloud Irom by reading two or lour
verses, ami very often repeat the next few verses. Grand
mother Green just before she died said she was to die
and she talked as coolly and calmly as 1 ever heard her on any
subject. Broughton Green says he stood by her bedside as
she breathed her last, and her last words were, "Come blessed
Jesus, why tarry so long." Her lite was an exemplary one.
and I never heard oi any one but who- respected 'Mother
(ireen." She was very ingenious with her needle, could knit
our names in the wrists of our mittens, cut an ; make- boy,
and mens clothing, make fishing lines for her grandchilien,
and was a model housewife of that day and age. 1 he Greens
of that day made good teachers (generally rather easy for
ihrm to procure an education) and were law abiding people.
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We now come more particularly to the home life of Ezra
(ireenat Remsen. In conversation with Betsey Green Hurl-
but, of Centralia Nemaha county, Kansas, who was born in
1S33, and as a girl of 9 or 10 years, remembers man)- things
that Broughton didn't, 1 learn that Ezra Green, getting along
in years now, 71 years old, had Eleazer, the youngest son,
take tin: farm, and only 8 months before grandfather's death
Eleazer married Sylvina Kent, who were- fellow towns peo-
ple from Bethlehem, Conn. 1 do not think that Ezra was a
hard working man here, lie filled a sort of a squire's office,
did a little pettifogging and thus helped out die living. Cla-
rinda and Lucy married off in 1800 and 1801 and it was the;
custom for the young folks in those days to all push out and
get into homes or employment of their own very early in life.
The great inducements! of Western N. Y,, Western Reserve,
Ohio and Southern Michigan induced the boys to go west aud
I grow up with the countrx .
Ezra Green died of heart disease. They were preparing to
go out and grandmother was in an adjoining room; Sylvina,
the only one in the room hearing a chair squeak, looked up
and saw grandfather falling, rdie sprang to his assistance,
but he had breathed his last.
Cousin Samuel C. Wooster, son of Lucy Green Wooster,
who knew the grandparents, says the Ezra Green was a Capt.
in the war and afterwards drew a pension of $40 per month.
1 can find no records to that effect, Another cousin says that
he was a dratted man. 1 le may have been the third term of
service, which was for state defense. 1 >ut 1 submit herewith
the following:
I ) K I ' A I { T M K N IP OF TU K I X T K K I ( ) R ,
IM'KKAl' OK I'KNSIONS,
Washington, I). C, December 7, 1WU.
Sir:
In reply to your letter of November 23rd., addressed to (lie Depart inenl.
of the Interior, and referred to I his IJureau, yon will please llnd below a state-
ment ot the military and family History of K7.n1 Green, a Revolutionary sol-
dier, as contained in tbe anplical ion (01 pension, of bis widow, on file in Ibis
ollice.
f Sbe states in her declaration that her husband. K/.ra Green, enlisted in the
spring of 1775, as ;i private in ('apt. David llinman's Company, Col. Benjamin
[Human's llcgt... and served until November, 1 77o. Knlistcd under ('apt.
Smith, in Col. Philip Uradley'H lte.jrt. in 17?f> and served nix mouths. In the
suinuier of 1777, served at, I'eekskill, N. V., under Ca.pl,. Knos llawlev, in Col.
Moseloy's lietfl,, lor live weeks. A Iso about, (he 2»th of A pril, 1777. he went I o
Danbury under Captain llawley and remained about a week.
ll is not stated in ;iny of the papers on lilt- that he was engaged in any l> u-
H« lli« widow was granted a pension of tftT.tW per aimnni eomtnene'inK on
the ttli hi March. itBI. Very Itespeeifully.
Cll UtLKS It. (iKKKX, Esji., (iltKKX 15. II.U'M,
Lyndon, Kansas. Commissioner.
Eleazer Green built his dwelling house in Renisen about
1823-24, and when he went to house keeping his father and
mother moved at once, and lived with them. 1 asked Betsey
G. Hurlbut to describe it. It was a large house, on the-
ground at least 24x3b with an addition on the rear, perhaps
18x24, which contained sink room, big brick bake oven, arch
for soap making, woodshed, etc. The upright below was di-
vided into about six rooms, with two stairways. The house
faced east, and the family sitting- room was the southeast room
and communicated through the stairway hall with grandmoth-
er's room, which was on the south side of the house and had
a chimney. Grandmother also had a clothes press up stairs,
and toward the last some ol us girls assisted her in doing her
sweeping. She always ate at the family table but received
h< r company in her own room, and the children were careful
not to intrude without permission. In those days children
were neither seen or heard when the elders did their visiting
Betsey said: "There was a big room up stairs with a fire-
place in. The best stairs led up from a hall opening out the
south door, which was the principal entrance, although
a siilc: door, and they went across lots to Aunt Sally's
from this door bather was a justice of the peace and usually
perlormed the various ollices ol the law up stairs. When 1
misbehaved at the table I had to go and sit on lower step of
the back stairs in the room.
liroughton says Kleazer and wife went to live with the
grandparents and were to take care of them, pay the drbts
and have the homestead, which was about forty acres with
good house and barn. The original Kzra Green home site cut
the hank of Cincinnati creek, is about 95 rods from the house
father built, and where we were born, which was over the line
in Remsen. We never had but one pair ol stairs in usi at a
fiim*. The house was story and hall."
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EI.EAZEKS HOUSE WHKRK THE GRANDPARENTS DIED.
Therons girl, .Mary, when young, was at kemsen— per-
haps she lived with her grandmother Amy. She had a new
bonnet and it was trimmed or decorated with an artificial
(lower. Grandmother took her to Steuben to quarterly
meeting; as theywi re going into the love feast Sunday morn-
ing grandmother presented her ticket and was about to take
Mary Green (afterward Mrs. Ingersoll) into the love feast.
The minister at the door said: •'Mother Green, you know the
rules; that artificial can not go in, or the child can't with that
on her bonnet." Grandmother took hold of it and tore it off
and put it in her pocket. Mary was no Methodist after that'
her first nice bonnet was ruined. This incident was told to
Broughton by one who saw and heard the whole transaction,
for it must have occurred jo or 80 years ago, and in the
"forties" almost the same thing happened to one of Lleazer's
girls, in their new home in Western New York.
Clarinda Green married James Miller in 1800 He was a
carpenter, but finally became a local preacher in the M. L.
church ami was ordained at Westmoreland, Oneida county,
lie was quite an extensive farmer before his death. She had
three children, two daughter and a son. Matilda, born July
1 1, 1805, Betsey and James Miller. The first married Lleazer
Plumb; Betsey married Mr. Allen. Matilda, solar as 1 know,
is still alive, aged 88 and beholds around her sons and daugh-
ters of the 5th generation from Ezra Green, and her great
grandchildren'. 1 believe her home is with a grandson, G. II.
P. Gould, Lyon's Falls. Lewis count)-, N. Y.. where; many of
Ezra Greens descendants live. Phis county adjoins Oneida
on the .north. Referring to Cousin Amy C. Phelps' letter,
written in 1841, two years' before grandmother's death, she
thus speaks of this family: "Uncle Miller's family visited us
last winter, Matilda. Betsey and James. Aunt Clarinda died
last summer; (1840) Uncle Miller was married last Nq vein ber,
I think, and Cousin James was married in March." (1841).
As Matilda is now 36 years old, we may imagine that her
daughter, Mary Plumb, might be old enough to slyly look at
Mr. Gould, and it is reserved for some other historian to fol-
low out all the generations of this Clarinda Green Miller lam-
1 he second child in order of Ezra and Amy Green's family
was Lucy, who married the next year after Clarinda, viz:
Sept. 13,1801. age 22 — born, married and died in the month
September. She married Amos Wooster. who was a native
of the adjoining county, Herkimer; a farmer, who died in '41.
They had two children, Alpheus and Samuel C. Wooster.
Alpheus was born May 19, 1803, in the town of Russia, •Her-
kimer count)', N. Y. Samuel was born two years later and is
alive yet, aged -s8 years near the Wooster relatives in Mich.
Aunt Lucy, Alpheus' mother died there in New York, St-pt.
13, 1820, at the early age of 41 ; but her husband some years
later, in 1834, moved with his son Alpheus to near Ann Ar-
bor, Mich; Alpheus had strayed off to Monroe countv. New
York, in the neighborhood of his uncle Charles Green, and at
the town of Greece, married Mrs. Margaret Hoover, a Scotch
lady, the year after Charles Green moved to Milan. Ohio.
and the year before the Woosters moved to Michigan. Al-
pheus chose him out a good home 38 miles west of Detroit,
and in a letter to his Uncle Eleazer, back at Remsen, in the;
old homestead in 1841. mentions the death of his father,
Amos Wooster, and wishes to know the dates of his mother,
Lucy's, birth and death. Lleaser is quite busy and neglects
answering this letter, several months elapse and Grandmother
Amy, who is now 82 years old, prevails on Cousin Am)- C.
Thelps to write the family letter, and it is such a good one
lhat I give a copy ol it to the readers. The original is in the
possession of Urania Wooster 1 )onovan, youngest daughter
o! Alpheus, born in 1845, wno *s living 15 miles from the old
homestead at South Lyon, Oakland count)', Mich, a lad)'
much interested in this Lzra Green family history.
There are other branches of this Wooster f amity living
there in Michigan.
Alpheus died July 24, 1871. and his wife, after living four
years ».n the old farm alone, went to live with Urania, with
whom she lived 15 years, dying in 1890, aged 86 years.
We now come to Theron Green, the oldest boy. Although
two of his children. Grove Winter Green ami Mary Green In-
gersoll, are yet alive in good old age, at Springfield, O., I
have not been able in correspondence to draw out much
family history about Theron, the father. 1 infer thai he grew
up, married, went to Sacketts Harbor, which is 011 Lake ( )u-
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tario, north oi kemsen, and the two children, Mary and
drove were born in the years 1806 and 1808 that the family
moved about considerable, and for some reason broke up
when Grove was seven years old, and he was not living- at
home any more until he was 16. 1 do not know when Ther-
011 died. Of Grove Green's family and history see further on.
Betsey Green, the fourth child born in 1784, married Bo-
han Smith, of Kemsen, and lived near home. My father,
Eli as Green, visited some of the cousins of this family. Aug.,
1850, perhaps he visited them in years before; I remember
very well his being absent from home this particular time, as
1. a boy 1 1 years old, had to water the stock during the
drouth while he was gone, out of a deep well, with hook and
pail, and my mother went along' to see that I didn't fall in.
So, you see, dear friends, that we sometimes get impressions
of family visits very early in life. My father made some
notes of names of cousins in the several families in his mem-
orandum book; and in a letter home to mother, writing from
Trenton halls, says: "1 have had a good visit with my uncles,
aunts and cousins, and although 1 have spent but little time
with them, 1 have enjoyed it and found them all well." Of
the cousins in Aunt Bestey's family, he says Monora married
Kvan Owens. 1 lind in later notes, the word "'dead'' marked.
Urana Smith married Mitchell, of Copenhagen ; James Smith
lived at Turin; Alsau ena married John Owens, of Kemsen,
and Lucy married Wells, ol Copenhagen. Now, it is very
easy to record these lacts, but were 1 acquainted at Kemsen,
undoubtedly man) pages might be filled with the events of
the life of this family and their descendants. I don't know
when Aunt Betsey died.
1 find that there was not much intercourse between the
cousins of New York and those of the "Far West,'' as Amy
Phelps expressed it in her letter 50 years ago. The family
name is kept up by naming- the girls Urana and' Lucy, in
18S4 Mrs. P. Owen, a gran 1 daughter of Betsey Green Smith
of Utica, visits the Lucy Woostcr branch of the family in
Michigan, as did Uncle Klea/er.
In 1850 lv.ra's daughter Josephine Green, in correspond-
ence with Hlias Green, of Ohio, says: "Aunt Betsey's health
is very poor this summer— not expected to live — drops)' of
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the lungs will carry her to the grave."
The Urana Canfield branch of Ezra Green's family I know
more about, as it was my fortune during the war of the Re-
bellion, when a wounded soldier, sent from the battlefield of
Chicamauga to the Ohio hospital at Cincinnati, to be enter-
tained in the families otiMrs. Sarah Hoffner and James W.
Canfield in that city. Whether the)' then were the only two
children of : Urana Green Canfield living, I don't remember, but
1 find in a letter to me from Jacob Hoffner, during the war,
that, "Mrs. 11. (Sarah) has three sisters and each one has an
only son, and all three are in the war for three years; none
hurt yet." (1862.) That, "Cynthia Munson's (Mrs. H's.' niece)
mother lives in Connecticut and has a brother in the army un-
der Burnside." Then again in 1864 Mr. Hoffner, who was
heart, soul and purse for the Union, writes: "I went the other
day to Harper's Ferry for U wight Kilbourn, my wife's nephew,
who was wounded, and took him home to Connecticut, where
1 left my wife with him while I hurried home to vote." Mr.
Canfield was a merchant there in Cincinnati. I never heard
him speak of his father or mother. Mrs. Hoffner talked with
me some but 1 made no notes as 1 was a stranger and engross-
ed with soldier life. 1 regret it much, for she u as so kind.
That was the last time 1 ever saw her, for soon after the close
of the war, 1866, when on a pleasure voyage down the Miss-
issippi river the boat blew up and she was never seen more.
.As she was then 59 years old and was born at Litchlield,
Conn., 1 infer that Urana Green must have married and moved
back to Connecticut from Kemsen. ^.
1 correct a mistake made in my introduction by sayingSa-
rah was the fust wife Mr. Hoffner married her as his second
wife, and after her death married a third time.
There is so much in the character of the Hoffncrs to ad-
mire that 1 will devote a paj^e to them further on.
Schick, the tfih child and second son, born Sept. 13, 1789,
had the most numerous family of any of Ezra Green's children.
Ail dead in 1891 but Earl Bill, "Doc" they called him. Sel-
lick married Fanny Fowler and settled down round home;
three of his children, however, settled 50 miles away in Lewis
and Jefferson counties. The names of the children ol Schick
come about thus: Charles, George, John, Caleb, one girl,
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Maria, Wells H. and Doctor Earl Bill. A son of Charles,
by. name E. P. Green, lives in Minneapolis. As with other
Remsen families, beirig unacquainted 1 have little to write.
Father has left little record of them audit is so difficult to get
satisfaction from correspondence- that 1 have avoided it so
hen1 is an open field for family genealogists.
The Sail)' Green Phelps family live around Remsen. When
Aunt Sally married Harvey Phelps J do not know. My lath-
er visited Aunt Sally in 1856, at Denmark Lewis county, N.
V. Her children, undoubtedly man)' of them married then,
Were, Harry, Amy C. who married Morgan, Chandlcy L.,
Elizabeth, who married Wheeler, and Nathan Phelps, five in
number. I think Broughton Green said all were yet alive in
1891. Cousin Betsy Hurlbut told me considerable about
these relatives, and desiring to know more of their genealogy
I addressed a letter of inquiry to one of them, which was nev-
er acknowledged. But though strangers, my heart warms
toward them when I read a 50 year old letter written b\ Amy
C, though only a girl, at tin; request of her grandmother,
and undoubtedly she is, it alive, a worth)' namesake of our
grandmother Amy Church Green. And 1 trust that our
daughters, as the)' become mothers in homes of their own,
will see to it that there are more Amys. 1 am told that Amy
C. Phelps was a successful teacher, ami that Chandlcy E.
Phelps ably represented this count) instate offices at Albany ;
and of the later generation ol Phelps's, 1 have heard there
were two who went out in the late; war and fought for the
Union. Aunt Sally Phelps lived on a farm but Harvey, the
husband run a saw will on Cincinnati creek. They lived on-
ly about a quarter of a mile from Elea/er Green's. Mr.
Phelps died before the recollection of Cousin Betsy. One
Sunday they found their cow dead; next Sunday the horse
was found dead. The loss ol these animals in those 'days
meant a great deal to such pioneer families. The lather
seemed to have a presentment of his coming death in some
manner, for he spoke of it in class meeting about this time.
The next Sunday morning he slid down from the mow in the
barn onto the upturned tines of the fork and died, leaving a
large circle to mourn the loss ol this good man, and a widow
with a family ol children to struggle upward in life.
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My grandfather, Charles Green, was born at Steuben, in
'94. 1 think left home as early as the age of twenty to go
further west. The Erie canal project was being put through
in those days ami lots of young men went west to newer
countries. Charles stopped in the country around Living-
stone and Ontario counties, and learned or followed the trade
of cloth manufacturer James Perritt, my grandmother's
youngest brother; yet alive at the advanced age of 81, says
when quite young he went to their house (for Charles was
married to Electa Perrin in 1818) and found Charles Green
owned a carding machine for wool and followed cloth dress-
ing, on Henry creek, Bloomfield. Some years later he went
onto a farm two miles west of Allen's Mills, afterward Roch-
ester. James Perrin chopped wood for them in the winter
and drove canal horses in the summer. For some reason
grandfather had a craxy spell, when his wife had to take
charge of the business, trade off the farm, give an acceptable
title, trade two carding machines and make the preparations
fur the move to Milan, Ohio, in 1X32-33. Grove Green also
made it convenient to come and spend a season with his Uncle
Charles at West Bloomfield. working in the clothier shop in
the summer and going to school in the winter That was be-
fore Grandfather Ezra died, probably F823, as Grove said
that Elias could not talk plain, From here Grove footed it
10 Buffalo and learned his trade. My father, Elias, once told
me that he used to go to Mien's Mills with the grist of corn
when he was 10 or 12 years old, and there were but two or
three houses there then, with plenty of squirrels jumping around
on the trees. This was the beginning of the city of Roches-
ter and my grandparents' little farm, now a part of the city,
would have made diem worth thousands if they had stayed on
it. My father saw Sam Patch make his fatal leap near the
falls, from a great height, My grandmother seems to have
been a woman similar to Grandmother Amy, competent to do
any business or travel alone. Six children were born to them
around Bloomfield; one died as they were about to start for
Ohio, and ai Milan the)' buried another; but sOme years later
lames l\ Green was born, so that live grew up to manhood.
I dci not know the attraction at Milan, ( ). They moved there
in the winter of (833, in a wagon, and I have heard my father
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tell some of their trials which are usually found in a new coun-
try. One thing that they appreciated there was the seminary
at Milan, which enabled all the boys (for there were no girls
born in this family, ) to got good educations, borne of the
New York relatives came to visit and enjoy terms of school
here also.
The Perrins came originally from Connecticut to Monroe
county, N. Y. Their published genealogy shows that John
Perryn came to Braintree, Mass., August, 1635, and that
Electa was of the 7th generation, being a daughter of Jacob
Pern'n, one of the family of brothers who settled Perrinton,
New York, in 1789.
As Electa was next to the oldest of a large family, and hav-
ing lived near her people some years after marriage, we find
that the Perrins emigrated to the west, into Southern Michi-
gan, and there was every year more or less intercourse be-
tween the New York, Ohio and Michigan families; one cous-
in in particular, who is well advanced in years, L. Maritta
Goff Morrel, making us sucli pleasant visits every year or
two. In the year when the cholera was so bad through the
north, I think 1832, our folks lived near Rochester, and fa-
ther, though only 12, worked for a rich man, getting a hand-
some remuneration. Grandfather Charles Green was a good
manager and never left a debt when he died. Mis mother,
Amy Church Green, came out and stayed with them at Milan.
While she was there they had family prayers. Perhaps it was
in those days that he cut and hauled off wood and sold at 7^
cents per cord for four foot length enough to buy the old-
fashioned leather bound family bible which 1 inherited, and
which contains their family record He was quick tempered
and would knock his children right down with a board or
any thing if they didn't obey, but my mother, who lived be-
side? them, says, "he was a real good, sociable man, and she
liked him ever so much, and felt real bad about his sad death''
which occurred March '3*, 1S53, aged 59 years, by his own
hand. Grandmother Electa followed two years lat« r, and
with Ransom and Chauncey, two of their children, are sleep-
ing in the old neighborhood burying ground three miles east
of Milan. Thi'ir children are all dead. Ezra, a young man,
went to seek his fortune away west in Illinois in 1844, and
was
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getting an opportunity to go clown to Louisiana to work as a
carpenter, and died there, 1845, among strangers.
Chauncey married and as a physician sought a home in
Minnesota, but alter the death of his wife returned to Ohio
and died in 1861 of consumption, leaving a second wife ami
four children.
Ciiauncev's Family Record: — Chauncey born June 28,
1824, probably at West Bloomfield, Ontario county, \. Y.
Married Marettie 1 lumphrey, who lived near Wellington, Ohio,
1848. Electa Green, born January 14. 1850. Ella M. Green
born January 14, 1853; Fanny Lena Green, born September
19. 1857.
Electa married H. L. Swain, of Minneapolis. Minnesota.
Ella married Everett Hull, of Oberlin, died in Toledo, Sep-
tember 25, 1886, leaving two children. Fanny died May [3,
1878, a young lady. Their mother died when Fanny vva
seven months old. May 19, 1858. Her parents lived besid
them in Minnesota.
After Chauncey came back to Ohio he married Sophia Day
in 1859. Her parents lived near Oberlin and could trace
their family genealogy back to Pilgrim days. Chauncey set-
tled and practiced medicine at Birmingham, a few miles from
Milan, O. A son. Charles Alexis Green, was born to them at
Birmingham, Ohio. Dec. 31, i860.
The father died the next year, Oct. 25, 1 86 1, aged 37 years,
3 months and 27 days.
Charles A. is a leading mechanic and a young man of
great inventive genius, at Fort Myers, Lee county,' Florida
unmarried. Electa had three children: Klla M Swain, Chas.
L. Swain, and 1 Iobart A. Swain Ella is married to Clarence
Ashworth, of Minneapolis, and his one five year old boy.
James 1\ learned the machinest trade, went west of the
Mississippi, served in the U. S Gunboat Service during the
war, married and settled at Kansas City, where he made and
lost a fifty thousand dollar fortune in live years; but nothing
daunted went to Colorado and rose ami fell again; and was
on a fair road to wealth the third time, in Texas, when he was
stricken down by typhoid fever in 1875.
1 lis wife died several years later. Willie H. Green, born
about i860, is married and settled down as an engineer on the
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Texas Pacific R. R., Marshal, Texas. He, like his lather, is
k good machinist. Annie was born in 1866, married John
Hull, 1883, lived with her husband six years, in Texas, divorc-
ed from him because of shiftlessness, and is supporting herself
at Galveston at last accounts. She goes by the name of Gra-
ham. Aimee attended school at Norwalk, Ohio, livirig in
Carlos Green's family, but was recalled home by her moth-
er's death. James V. Green died September 27, 1875, aged
37 years, 9 months and 17 days.
A little son jimmy, who was about five years old and had
to goon crutches, died 2 years after the father. Two children are
living. This uncle furnished certain material for 100 miles of
the Union Pacific in its building, 1867; also interested in the
building of the Santa Fe system and other operations in which
machinery figured and genius was required. We see here
three stricken down before they attained middle age.
Klias was the oldest, born May 22, 1820, near West
Bloomlield, Ontario and Living-stone counties, New York.
He was well advanced in his studies, being learned in the
languages and familiar with the classics. He was a writer of
"prose," a composer of "blank verse" and a contributor to sev-
eral newspapers and journals. He delighted in music. It is
interesting to look over his school records of 14 terms taught
around Milan, Berlin and other places convenient. 1 le found the
avocation of a fanner the pleasantest; marrying Mar) Ann
Shelton, whose people were from Connecticut, they settled
down in Huron count)' at Wakeman and Clarkstield, an i ten
children were born to them, eight of which are living at the
present time, having each homes or families of their own.
The grandfather, Charles, honored his own father. Iizra
Green, by naming one of his boys Ezra, klias honored his
ancestors by two family names, Ezra and Charles, among his
live boys, and it is expected that the son lately born into Ez-
ra's family will have that time honored name for his; so that
there shall be at least onv fc*ra Green in every generation
of the; Ohio branch.
Charles R. Green, the author of this history., does not care
to write of himself more than to say that he shed blood on
Southern battlefields for the maintenance of the Union, and
that he held a surveyor's chain across the continent for the
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second trans-continental railway line; that he married Flavia
Harbour, a Connecticut born girl, for his first wife, who died
at Lyndon, Kansas, leaving- six motherless children, and after
five years he 11 arried Annie Kring, of Kansas, and that he
was born in 1845. Elias Green lived until his Oist year, dy-
ing at Wakeman. Ohio, of pneumonia, March 12, 1881. The
mother and all the family except Charles live around there. Elias
and Carlos were known to many of the cousins at Remsen. as
the former made at least two visits there in his lifetime.
Carlos from the first always had a love for sailing the lakes.
Although having the old homestead and afterwards other hne
farms around Milan, he liked to go west and help James in
his operations, and after James' death he became interested in
railroad building down in Central America, where he went
and returned two or three times, enjoying good health there,
but finally leaving home in the fall of 1884 with a companion,
he took down sick with the yellow fever as he passed through
New Orleans and died two or three days later on the ship and
was buried at sea, aged 59, No sons lived in his family.
Aunt Alice and two married daughters with families live at
Nor walk.
Josephine, the oldest daughter, born May 22, 185 1; mar-
ried Richard Webster in 1868. He was from Connecticut. A
son, Carlos Green Webster, was born to them February 20,
1872. They live at Norwalk, Ohio. Catharine (or Katie)
born October 2. 1862, married Clayton Rood, of Norwalk,
< mio. 1881. Her mother lives with her, or at least they live
together on a nice little farm two miles east of Hast Norwalk.
The)' have a son 12 years old: Harry Green Rood.
This uncle was a very sociable man and a good
manager on the farm. I have lived in the family, and it was
Carlos who taught me the first wheat to sow broadcast in
Kansas.
Now, good kinspeople of other branches of the Kzra Green
family, pardon this unusual length) sketch of Charles preen
and his descendants. Outside the fact of being well acquaint-
ed with their history, and having written only a synopsis of it,
1 expect to gel the principal part of the means lor the publish-
ing of1 this pamphlet from them. And in conclusion will say
that there are about 41 descendants of the Charles Green
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branch alive to-day, and a list will be found on an appendix
page hereafter.
Family Record of Elias Green.
Ei. ias Greek, Born May 22, 1820.
Mary Ann Siiei.ton, Horn March 10, 1826,
They were married November 20, 1844.
CHILDREN.
Charles Ransley Green. Uorji Now 8, 1845, at Milan. Ohio,
Helena A. Green, born March 30, 1848^11 Wakeinfan, Ohio,
Julia Aklaretta Green, born Sept. 5, 1850, at
Hepsie Elizabeth Green, born April 2 1 , 1852, at "
I )avid Elias Green, "born Nov. 24, 1853, at
Gersham Shelton Green, born Nov. 5; 1859, at E. Clarksfield,
Ezra Lincoln Green, born Nov. 30, 1861, at 1. Clarksfield, O.
Mary Ann Green. born Jul)' 15, 1863, at "
Bessie Henretta Green, born Dec. 12, 1866, at
Carlos Henry Green, born May 15, 1868, at E,
Helena died June 10, 1850. of cancer in the eye.
Aldadied April 19, 187c;, at Akron, Ohio, of quick con-
sumption, Hired 29.
The girls married:
Hepsie— Will Morriss, 1880, lives in East Clarksfield, has
no children of her own, but took her brother Charles' young-
est chiKl, Maurice E. 1) Green, to bring up.
Bessie — Mathew Delamater, in 1885, W'akcman, Ohio, and
has three children
Mar)' — Married Emerson Eletcher, (born Oct. 10, 1864,)
Eebruary 23, 1887, W'akcman, Ohio, two children: Hat tie
Winifred, born Feb. 12, 1889, and Myron Elbert, Aug io, '91.
Ezra Green Jr., born in '97, was the 9th child. He setded
near home, marrying Millie — — . Ezra died October 1873,
but Millie, his wife, was yet alive at last accounts, aged 93.
She was the mother of seven children, lice ol which are mar-
ried daughters, living in Trenton. My lather always enjoyed
his Uncle Ezra's society, and, although 1 do not recollect any-
thing he said after visiting there, 1850, he kept up a corres-
pondence with one of the girls, his cousin Josephine, for some
years. It was my fortune* to meet the eldest son of Ezra,
Henry S. Green, at his home in St. Louis in [868, but was
he, e but an hour or so. He is now dead, as is his wife, and
they left no children. Harvey Green, another son. living
around Oneida county somewhere, lam unable to sneak of
At the date ot this writing 1 am sorry to have so little informa-
tioni of this family, in which, I am told, there are many grand-
children. I his anecdote is related by a niece, of some of
fc.zras and Lleazers doings when young men. Sylvina Kent
shed her smiles on several beaux; one wintry night when out
si. igh ridmg with one. Kleazer and Ezra Green placed rails
in the track at the bottom of a hill they had to come down so
that Sylvina doubtless got jogged, but Kleazer got her for a
companion in the end.
Of Kleazer, the youngest in the family, much can be writ-
ten He it was who lor so many years cared for our Grand-
mother Amy, who after the father's death in 1825, became the
head of the family and kept up the honor of the Greens in die
old homestead. Who made the trip back to the old Connect-
icut home m search of evidence to establish the claim of his
mother for a pension from the government, as a widow of a
Revolutionary soldier, which was -ranted to her in 1831 as
shown on preceding pages. Kleazer was born in the town
of Steuben in 1800. Some of the sisters married off about
this year. lie married Sylvina Kent. January 11. 1824
several months before Grandfather Kzra's death.
I he Rents were people of sterling integrity, whose ances-
tors had come from Wales and France to the New Kng| "
shore, and Sylvina's mother and our Grand mother Amy
Church, back at Litchfield, when little -iris, used to eat ap-
ples together under a certain line apple tree, and we do not
wonder that the families are united by marriage. Eva Hurl-
but Carpenter, a grandaughter of Kleazer, showed me a piece
<)! bed curtain tapestry woven by the great grandmother back
in k ranee, doubtless 150 years old now.
hle.ixer taught school in 1818-20, and was very successful.
Doubtless there may be those living around Kemsen who went
10 him in those days long ago. lie was named and educated
lor a minister, but never made a profession of religion, and
never preached except as a school teacher or by exam-
ple.' Kleazer seems to have kept up intercourse- with the
western members ol his father's family, and his daughter So-
phia must have spent a season with her Uncle Charles at Mi-
lan, Ohio, as she afterward married Geo W. Smith, of that
place. In some old letters I believe is an account of Eleazer's
visit in late years to the Wooster branch in Michigan. I was
quite interested in his daughter Betsy's account ol the removal
from Remsen to their new home in Chautauqua count)," west-
ern N. Y. John Kent, a brother of Sylvina, had previously
settled there, and Sophia was there already I think the
move was made in the fall of 1847. broughton W., the old-
est son, had become a successful teacher for that nay, although
only 22 years old, and did not make a final departure from
Remsen until two years later. The household goods were
hauled to Rome, where they went by way of the canal to
Buffalo and thence by wagon to Harmony. Betsy remem-
bers this ride very well as she was 13 or 14, and as Eleazer,
the two-year-old baby, occupied the mother's full attention.
Betsy had to attend to William, who was five, and as they
went along the lake shore from Buffalo in a stage, often it
would mire down and the folks would have to walk, so that
Betsy had a hard job carrying the boy, William died young,
from the effects ol the bite of a dog. Eleazer, the baby,
young as he was, was determined not to leave the Remsen
home. Whenever he could, he would turn back along the
road to Rome, and even on the canal boat and stage had to
be watched.
Betsy also remembers when a girl live or six years old
bringing home apronslull of sweet apples from a certain or-
chard planted years before by Grandfather Ezra. It was on
some adjoining farm that seems to have been lost, as in the
family talk between Aunt Sally Phelps and lather, a certain
lot. known as the "Dodge lot," west or southwest of the house
a hall mile more or less, a level lot, quite tree oi stone, seemed
to be called into question, and sometimes farmed by one and
another of the family.
Eleazer filled man)' offices of trust in the township, such as
town clerk, commissioner and inspector of schools, assessor,
road overseer, constable and collector, but was never a justice
of the peace as stated in the former pa^es, and while the
S(|iiare room up stairs in tin- house plan given might have
been used lor papers, town records, etc., Broughton thinks it
never was used as an office. The house underwent a remod-
eling- which is hard to understand. Eleazer was very forward
in all educational matters, taking after his Grandmother
Church Green, whose kinspeople were manufacturers, build-
ers, lawyers and jurists.
Family Record of Eleazer Green.
Eleazer Green, born in town of Steuben, May 16, 1800,
Svlvina Kent, born in town of Remsen, July 27, 1807,
Married January 1 1, 1824. Their children were:
Broughton White Green, born May 24, 1825, at Remsen.
Sophia Burchard Green, born April 12, 1827 at
Betsy Smith Green, born July 18. 1833, at
Amy Church Green, born May 14, 1839, at v*
William Eleazer Green, born July 5, 1843, at
Eleazer Green Jr.. born March 16, 1846, at
Sophia B. married Geo. W. Smith, Milan, Ohio; had three
boys and died (no date given). Eleazer Smith, one of her
sons, married Broughton's daughter Sylvina and lives at
Eindlay. Ohio (3ne of the other sons lives at Cresco, Mich.
The other at Belvidere, 111. The father, Geo. Smith, is dead.
Betsy S. married Elias Hurlbut, (born in the town of Har-
mon)', N. Y.; March 1, 1834), June 16, 1857, and after living
a few years in Chautauqua comity, was obliged to re1 love to
Kansas lor her health. The)' had one daughter. I 1, born
June 7, 1858, who recollects her grandparents, Eh er and
Sylvina very well. She was married to Worth O. Carpenter,
December 5, 1886, in Centralia^ Kansas, and has a daughter
Ethel, born February 7, 1888. I visited the home of these
cousins in the winter of 1892, and was shown man)' olden
time relics, and heard much history that space forbids my
mentioning.
Amy C. married A. C. Palmer, of Jamestown, N. V., and
has three children, the oldest a girl; the second a boy who
from congestion of the brain is not well. The third, Ered B.
Palmer, will soon be a graduate ol the Alleghany college.
Eleazer received a common English education and after-
wards a law course, and is successful both in business anil
profession; marrying Mar)- Brown and settling down near
home at Jamestown, N. Y., to practice law. The) have tliree
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children, lid ward J Green, a talented young man of iS; lilla
17; and Clara L., 14. It was the Hleazer of this generation
that Mr. Hoffner wanted to take and educate and have for a
child of his own and an heir to his wealth, in 1861. But the
father, Klea/er. did not care to spare one of his family.
Broughton W., the oldest of Eleazer's family, now 68 years
old, seems to be the last to be written about. He has been
very willing to gather and send me family history of every
one except himself. He was married to Alvira Carpenter
May j, 1849 about the year he left Remsen to join has father
in western New York. He seems to have settled near there,
at Busti, as a farmer, and has told me that all five of his chil-
dren were born there and that the mother, Alvira, died then-
— no date given.
The names of Broughton's children are: Wesley B., Mary
E., Martha A.. Sylvina Annis and William Hleazer.
Wesley 11 Green is a successful railroad official on the
Northern Union Pacific in Montana, and has four children.
Mary is married and has five children. She lives at Busti. N.
Y,, but 1 don't know her name.
Martha has been married twice. By the first husband, who
is dead, she has three living children, anil one daughter by
her present husband. Their home is at Busti.
Sylvina married Hleazer Smith, Hindlay. ().. and has one hoy.
William Hleazer is also in die west. lie married a young
Hnglish lady ami has one child, a son. I le was fanning in
1 89 1-92 at Spencer. Iowa, but left for Idaho, or that way,
Thus we find that Broughton's descendants number about
twenty. Broughton has had a world of bad luck, and I don't
know as it is best to say anything more about it. i le was
married to a second wife in the 80s, but obtained a di-
vorce afterwards; and not having any home of his own, lie
spends his winters with one and another of his children. I lis
permanent address is Harmon), X. \. My mother says he
is a jovial lellow ami adapts himself wonderfully to any and all
circumstances; which is the true way to happines
Broughton, in speaking of earl)' childhood days, says: b,l
do not recollect there ever being company to see Grandmoth-
er Amy when we children couldn't go into grandmother's
room My oldest sister slept with her a good deal and was a
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great favorite of hers. And in fact I did not know Betsy
ever misbehaved any there. She was the most obedient girl
I had in my schools, i recollect of but one instane when Bet-
sy did not go to her meal. Something displeased her and she
was pouting, and grandmother said to her, "I guess Betsy is
going to have pout pie for dinner." She sat, 1 am inclined to
think, on the Step of the stair mentioned. At any rate, she
sat there for a long time and finally spoke up and said, 'il I am
going to have any pout pie, 1 want it, for 1 am hungry.' We
all laughed heartily to think she never knew what pout pie
was. 1 know perfectly Well they used sometimes to call Betsy
'Brought No. 2. She; resembled me more than any the rest
of the children, in complexion and build.
Father was always down on drunkenness and unchaste per-
sons, arid being so radical on these perhaps is why he was
never elected justice of the peace. Betsy is wrong about fa-
ther building the house 1 was born in, for Grandfather Green
built it and it cost more, I think, than he thought it would, so
that when father took the property he assumed some debts
and was to support the parents.
Father always thought very much of his mother, and she
did of him and his children. Grandmother Green was an ex-
traordinary good woman, and quite well educated. She was
in her day what was called a noisy Methodist; dressed plain,
but her apparel was always made of good material. A com-
missioner of deeds came to our house, and after grandmother
had signed her name, the officer said there was not a female
school teacher in town that could write her name as well as
: he had written hers.
There is only one apple tree left now of the orchard that
father set out in l 840, the orchard that he wrote to his broth-
er Charles about, in your old letter ot that day.
Broughton says: "When my grandparents left Connecticut,
1792, and were packing up their things, her brother was pres-
ent and presented her with a book containing Wesley's ser-
mons, and said to her, 'Amy, don't let your children tear this
up, but read it; it may prove of great benefit to you.' She
told her brother he must think her ungrateful and careless if
he thought she would care so little lor the gift as that. But
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when they had got to Steuben and were unpacking their
things, she took the book out of the box or trunk and laid it
on the floor. One of her children, unobserved, crept up and
got the book, opened it and tore out the fly leaf that her and
her brother's names were written on. Grandmother said that
she cried, but that did not restore the leaf. She afterward
wrote her and her brother's names in the back part, and I have
the book yet; old fashioned print, s's like an f. Grandmother
took to reading the book and said it made: her wise unto sal-
vation, for in a short time she experiencijtl religion, and from
that .time until the day of her death her home was the horn*; of
any Methodist preacher who came that way, and her death
was the death of a christian, which amounts to life everlasting,
for being dead she liveth, and her children rise up and call
her blessed."
They used to keep a hotel in an early day. Grandfather
Green used to be a pettifogger, and so did his son Ezra.
Children of Thero.n Green.
Grove Winter Green, born at Sacketts Harbor, N. V., June
10. 1808.
Louiza Ann Green, 18 14,
Maryline Green, 18 16.
Louiza Ann must have died young, as no mention is made
of her in recent correspondence.
Cousin Mary seems to have settled at Springfield, Ohio,
and married Mr. Ingersoll. She is now a widow with one
son, Grove T. Ingersoll.
Grove VV. Green is a self made man, who early in life had
to depend upon his own exertions for his fortune. Quoting
from a letter written me last year by himself, then in his 85th
year, nearly blind in one eye and the vision of the other im-
paired, he says: "Born in Sacketts Harbor, my first pants put
on me at Ashtabula; O., back to Sacketts I larbor before 1 was 5
years old. I have lived in Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida and On
tario counties, New York, and Eranklin, Ohio. Kingston,
Canada, and Granideer Island, half way between Canada and
the States before I was 21. I lived one winter in Uncle
Charles' family at liloomilcld.
I knew but little <>f Grandfather Ezra's family. Mary and I
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have often heard him repeat the saying that he had Dutch or
Hollander blood in his veins; hut that would not be in the
\yay of his bein^ an I/Aiglishman When 1 was 21 I settled in
Springfield; afterwards J married Elizabeth Watson.
1 was one of the survey party that helped run oft the coun-
try near Atchison, Kansas, in 1855 into Townships six miles
square, i came home from California in 1851.
Kk.mskn, July 18, 18-11.
My Much Ki:si-i:r.TEi) Cousin:
Although you are almost an entire stranger to me, I can remember
01 seeing you uuly once in my life, yet I esteem it not a privilege but a duty to
write for the sake" or relations and friends.
Grandmother wished me to write to you. She said Uncle Eleazer received
your letter last winter; in it we read the death of your father and a request to
know how old your mother was when she died.
She was born September 24, 1771), departed this life September 13, 1820, aged
forty-one years.
Grandmother is now 82 years old. She is able to walk as far as Uncle Sellick's
but has not walked as far as our house for more than a year. She enjoys com-
fortable health for a person of her age.
Uncle Eleazer and family are in good health. Uncle Sellick's are well, and
those that are men are doing well; Charles, his oldest son, is in partnership
with J. ester Fowler, a merchant; George, his second son, is married. He is
also a merchant.
Uncl« Bohan Smith's family are all well, all married except Lucy. Uncle
Ezra's are all well excepting Aunt Melissa, she has been sick more than a year.
1 suppose that you have heard that Aunt Clannda died last summer. Uncle
Miller was married last November, I think, and Cousin James was married last
March, so that there has been a great change in that family in less than a year.
As it respects our family, we are all well. One of my brothers lives in Lyden,
iny sister Elizabeth is in Boonvillo teaching school. Two of my brothers are
at home. We had the misfortune to have our mill burned one year ago last
March. Last summer we built another, it is much better than the old one.
One of my brothers is busy in it all the time; the other is employed on the
farm. 1 am teaching school in this district, and board at home. I have taught
school most of the time since 1 was sixteen. I am now twenty-four years old.
My dear cousin, 1 often think of you and the few cousins and friends that I
have in the far west, and compare your situation with ours. You are in Mich-
igan, Uncle Theron's two children are in Ohio, Grove and Mary; Uncle Charles
and family are also there.
There are live of Grandmother's children living near enough to each other
that they can see each other every week Uncle smith's children, three of
them, live within three miles of us; Cousin Urania lives about 50 miles from
here, but we see her mice and sometimes twice a year. Three of Uncle Sellick's
children live at the north, but visit Kemsen once a year.
Uncle Miller's children visited us last winter, Matilda, Betsey and James,
but those friends which live in the west, we never can see. I never saw any of
Uncle Charles' children and perhaps never shall; but we can write to each oth-
er I should be glad to hear from you once a year, at least. I had a letter from
Cousin Mary last winter. She and Cousin Grove live m Springfield, Clark
county, Ohio. Tiny were well, and doing well there.
\\ e have had a very dry season this summer. Everything is very backward.
Flour is 8>5 or $i) a barrel, corn t> s a bushel. We have one yoke of oxen, three
cows, a four year old colt which we brought up by hand, as its mother was kill-
ed when the colt was a lew hours old.
Give my love to your wife; accept of mother's best respects and wishes.
This from your affectionate cousin. Amy C. I'liELl'.s.
To Alpheus Wooster.
Ludlow, Sunday Morning, October 12th, 1802.
Ei.ias Grkkn,
Dkak Siu:— 1 found yesterday, on my return home from Europe,
yours ol September 3d. Mrs. II. and myself with Miss Elisabeth (.'an Meld have
spent the last four months in England, France, .Switzerland and Germany.
Have been all well and enjoyed our visit much, and returned pleased with our
journey. But I am much grieved at the turn the affairs of the war have taken
since I left home last June. Then our armies were all advancing and victory
crowned all our efforts. 1 had been in the gun boat fleet before Island No. II),
and at the surrender of it; then feeling fatigued, and believing as 1 did then
that the war would soon be over, I concluded to take a respite; and done so,
much to ray benelit.
Vow brother, J. 1\ Green, called on Mr. Canlield, and said that he was in the
service of the government, though I did not see him. As regards your son in the
1U1 liegt. Ohio Infantry, as yet I have not had tune to learn of his wherea-
bouts, but when I do 1 shall loose no opportunity to see him. I rejoice to see
with what alacrity our youths and even old sires respond to the calls and rush
to the rescue of our country. I am sorry to learn of the death of your brother
Chauncey, though it is what I expected, as all my experience teaches that the
doctrine of spiritualism produces melancholy, early decay, premature old age
and death.
Miss Cyntha Munson, Mrs. Iloffner's niece, went with us and spent the sum-
mer with her mother in Connecticut, near Litchfield. She has a sister there
who is lately married, and a brother in the army under Bumside. Mrs. II off -
ner has three sisters; each lias an only son, and the three sons are enlisted in
the war as three year volunteers. Xone as yet hurt, as we have heard from
them recently. All" my brothers are too old to go to war, but have many neph-
ews in the service; and worst of all, I had one, the son of my niece who lives in
Kentucky, joined the rebel army under Buckner, and he was killed in the bat-
tle of Fort Donaldson. I only regret that, he died in so bad a cause.
This leaves us well, and also Mr. Canlield and family.
\\ it h kind regards, I remain, Truly Yours,
J A COH IIOKFNLK.
EZRA OREEN's LAST LETTER HOME TO ELIAS UKEEN, MILAN, OHIO.
Homer, Tekre-Bonne-Farisii, Louisiana, Sunday, July 27, 1845.
Respected Brother:
Yours of the 2d inst has just come to hand, as has also a letter from
Chauncey, at Obcrlin, of June 21st, and right glad was 1 to get them too, being,
except the one from you in December last, the first that I have received from
any of you since March 21, is II. Previous to my gelling these my feelings had
become somewhat alienated from the family, and would have, been more so, 1
think, if I possessed a little more of that "Uucle Fleazer" (Leeze) disposition
which mother used to charge me with so often. But 1 find I was most too rash
in suffering myself to be displeased with not hearing from you, as one letter, at
least, has been written by Chauncey which I have not received. Hereafter I
hop,. you will lehirui and think of me once iii three months at any rale.
1 have nothing Important to write at this time, bt-ilig but a lew days since I
wrote tu Caih.s. My health Is tolerable good; have been over heated three or
four times since the middle of June, but by stopping work two or |h rev days, I
get coolod off so as to commence again, liming the rest of the summer my
work will be in the shade where I think I can stand it a little belter.
I have changed my situation, as you will barn by my letter to Carlos, which
he has probably received before this time, from Napoleonville oil Kayou ha
ol
ny leaving i hat
paid me n'.Mi y^ry
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lourche lo Homer, on 15a)ou TeSre Bonne. The reason
place was Hie poor prospect nf getting my pay. Col. Sparks
Irankly. for the linllwu monins, which 1 believe lie did only' as an iiiJuceineiit
lor me to work on through the year. Ml had qui him then 1 should liave
none well 1 soon learned that his workmen seldom got their pay without dif-
ficulty. 1 sel tied with him, taking his note for what was then due me one
hundred and nine dollars, payaole on demand, which is not
and I fear will never be worth a dollar to me. After beii
live weeks, 1 commenced work here on a plantation for
lorty dollars per month. Have worked aboui two and a hall months
time will be out 111 one and a half months more, after which. I think 1 shall be
in the vicinity of this place or near where I was 111 the winter. 1 am no! doing
as well as 1 expected when 1 first came to the country. Whether 1 slay anoth-
er year or not is quite uncertain. This is an expensive country for a man to
live in unless he is in good bus ness. I have thought some of attempting to be
an overseer next year, if I can get a situation, but shall not unless I conclude
to stay in this country three or four years.
I am living with the overseer, whose house, as on all plantations, is situated
at one end of the row of Negro houses; have a room to myself, and everything
convenient; no other companions than the overseer and the Negroes- see a li°
tie fun occasionally, and a Negro "hauled"
a while.
worth .")(» per cent.,
ig on expenses about
- Sample, at
My
up to the post and whipped once
Aligators plenty! Bayou full of them; catch pigs, ducks and geese frequent-
ly. Last Sunday one was found under the stable, about ten feet long and
'twas a jolly sight to see thirty or forty "Niggers" with poles and handspikes
run the old settler out and surround him. That, "pig chase" in the old Huron
Institueyard wasn't a primary to it, at all.
A few words as to the last letter. I am sorry that there is a disunion of feel-
ing witli your neighbor and relative opposite. Have confidence enough in me
to let me know all about it in your next.
Chauncey's letter which you spoke of his having written in the spring, I have
never received, nor any other from him than the one from Oberlin, of June 21
The most of that was filled with a medical lecture which was very' acceptable
He's getting up in the world. I think. If he gets too high remind him of the
time he used to eat so much mush and milk as to sit down in the corner and
cry with the "belly ache." (Don't let him see or hear this remark.) He wanted
to know if I could loan him any money this fall, which is not probable.
shall write him in a few days. 1 wrote to him in May at , which it
seems, by his letter, he has not received. (Jive my best respects to Sister Mary
and accept the same to yourself. EzitA Okkk.v '
Chauucey says Carlos talks of going to the west. Tell him not to go 'till lie
lias enough to buy some land. If he wants to leave home, to learn the carpen-
ter trade and come to this state; it is the best trade a man can have here. One
year spent in learning is nothing. Tell Mr. Lov that there will he but little
work in the country here during the winter season, planters all being busy in
gathering tlieir crops, cannot spare any hands to help a carpenter make im-
provements. In the city wages will be from two to two and a half dollars per
day until January and perhaps longer, depends upon the number of workmen
who come in from the north. A man ought to stay three or tour years to make
anything in this country. Urge upon Carlos the importance of the advice giv-
en on page two. Send papers often to Terre-Honne Parish, La. K. (;.
The sister Mary means my own mother. Ezra died about two weeks later,
and was buried there.
3°
Junk, 1893.
These addresses are given tor convenience. In some cases I have hail to
guess at ! lie age, ami smne may have changed t heir residence since I last heard.
Family Brunch of Clarincla Miller.
Mrs. Matilda I'luinh. aye 88. Locust Grove. Lewis county. \. Y. Lives
with her daughter, Mrs. Eairchild. Postmistress.
Mrs. Marv Plumb Gould, tlT. ITT North State street. Chicago, III.
G. II. I*, Gould, 50, Lyon Falls. Lewis county, ttew York.
Family Branch of Lucy Wooster.
Samuel Church Wooster, age 88, Care of his niece. Mrs. Urania Wooster
Donovan,. South Lynn, Oakland county, Michigan.
Mrs. Crania Donovan, age 67, South Lyon, Michigan.
Marv Estella. her daughter, age 17, South Lvon, Michigan.
Villiam li. linsetibark, 37, (leneral Manager of the Chicago. St. P & K.
C. It. II.. Pheirix Building, Chicago, III.
Mat hail Wooster, 54, South Lyon, Mich.
Three married children living near.
Mrs. Nancy Wooster [I or ton, 58, and two married daughters,
Diamondale, Raton county. Mich.
Family Branch of Theron Green.
Mrs. Marv Green Ingersoll, 77, No. 12 West Columbia St., Spriuglield. Ohio,
drove Winter (Jreen, 85, No. IN llut/er St., Spriuglield, Ohio.
(•rove T. Ingersoll, "><), Spriuglield, Ohio.
Mrs. T. .Jennie Walters, 53, Hox 558, Omaha, Neh.
Mrs. Laura Ilelle Eayres, :I2, Omaha, Neh.
Earnest W. Walters, 30, Omaha, Neb-
Edward II. Walters. 26, Omana, Neh.
Grace Lenore an adopted daughter, 5, Omaha, Neh.
Mrs. .1. C Billman, 50, Nebraska City, Neh.
Son Ilobert Pillman, 30, graduate of a Connecticut College, and on editorial
stall of Nebraska City Daily and Weekly Press, Nebraska City, Neh.
Theron Watson (Jreen, 44, London, Madison county, Ohio.
Mrs. Ida (ireen Walton, H, Dayton, Ohio.
Family Branch of Betsy, Smith.
Mrs. Alsamena Smith Owen, 70, Hem sen, Oneida county. New York.
Son -A. II. Owens, 45, N. V. State Mnildiug, World's Fair Grounds, IK'.W,
Chicago, Illinois.
Family Branch of Urana Canfield.
.Jacob Homier, age ill, husband of Sarah Can lie hi, (deceased). Station "Cum-
monsville," Cincinnati. Ohio.
Mrs. Cyntha A. Munsoi. Wood, 49, No. 171 West 47 St. New York City.
Family Branch of Sellick (ireen.
E. 1\ (Jreen, 30 Minneapolis, Minn.
Family Branch of Salley Phelps.
Chandlcy L. Phelps 82 Alder Creek. Oneida enmity, New York.
Nathan O. I 'helps, age58, Uemscn, New \ ork.
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Family Branch of Charles Green.
Mrs. Alice Green i 74, wife of late Carlos Green, East Norwalk, Huron Co o
v Ann (.._eei,. ii7. wife of late Elias (Jreen, Wakeman, Ohio'.
Lyndon, i)»»gv count v, Kansas.
W hile Ko.x, Huron county, Ohio.
tVakeman, Ohio
White Fox, Ohio.
.Mrs. Mary Ann Eletcher, 30; Mrs. Ilessie Delamater, 27, and Carlos'"/ J reen.'S"
,, ■-.. ,, Wakeman. Olno
Mrs. Electa Green Swain, 43, 41^ Nth Ave. South East, Minneapolis, Miuu
\ is. Klla .swain Ash worth, SB, 209 1st Avenue South, Minneapolis Minn'
I barles L. .swam, 23; Hol.eit A. Swain, 11, 413 11th Ave. S. E. Minneaoolis
Eugene ( liauneey Hull, l'.t, Lincoln Avenue, Toledo Ohio'
Mrs. .Josii.heneOiecn Webster, 12; Carlos (Ireen Webster. 21; N'orwalk 0
Mrs. Katie Green Uooo\31; Har-y (Jreen Hood, IS. East Norwalk Ohio'
( harles A ex,s Green.33, p„rt Myers, Lee county, Florida.
\Ji he II. Green 33 Marshall Texas.
Amiee E. Green Graham, 27, Galveston. Texas.
Mary Alice Green, 2.5; \\ lnmfred llelle (Jreen, 20; Norman Harbour (Jreen, IT),
Lyndon, Kansas.
White Kox, Huron county, Ohio.
Charles K.Grei
Mrs. Ileusie K. Morris, ||,
David K. (ireen, 40,
Gershatu S. (ireen, 34,
Ezra L. (ireen. 32,
Maurice Klias I). (Jreen.
. Family Branch of Ezra Green.
Mrs. Matilda ureen, !»3, wife of Ezra (ireen, Trenton, New York.
Mrs. Susan Melius, (><>, and four married sisters, all daughters of Ezra (ireen,
Trenton Falls, Oneida county, N. V.
Family Branch of Eleazer Green.
Silas Kent, 83, brother-in-law of Kleazer (Jreen (deceased), Hemsen, N. Y
Itroughtoii White (ireen, (X, Harmony, Chautauqua county New' York
Mrs Uetsy Smith ITurlbul.flO, Oentralia, Xetnaha coiinty, Kansas'
Mrs. Amy Church Palmer, 54; Kleazer (Jreen, 17, Jamestown, New York
Wesley 15. (ireen, Id, Stint, of construction Great Northern Railway Line
Pacific Extension, Kalisnel, Missoula county, Montana
William Kleazer (Jreen, 30, Spencer, Clay county, Iowa.
Later removed to Idaho, or west.
Eleazer Smith, 30, Findlay, Ohio.
Fred 15 Falmer, 20, .Jamestown, .V. Y
Edward J. (Jreen, lit; Ella Green, 17, and Clara (Jreen, 14, .Jamestown N Y
In conclusion, at this date, after printing \o pages, 1 would
say to the many kinspeople who will read' this pamphlet, ana
perhaps be disappointed because the)' have not beert written
of more, and who find errors in what 1 have compiled, that 1
have done just the best that I could with the material at hand.
and have tried to be impartial 1 do not wish to make any
one feel unpleasant toward me. I presume after the ap-
proaching visit, and reunion of the lizra Green family at
Remsen, July 4th and 5th, which I expect to attend, that there
will be many corrections and a great deal more history to be
written, which can be added on to the back of this pamphlet.
Some one had to make a beginning, lest we loose traditions
handed down to us; and while 1 have not put all I have into
print, 1 do this much now, as a memorial to our honored an-
cestors, Ezra and Amy Church Green. And the credit be-
longs principally to Broughton W. Green.
ClIAKI.KS R. Grkkn,
Lyndon, Kansas, June 24, 1893.
Revolutionary Grand-parents,
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; To the descendants oi our
Ezra and Amy Church Green
grkkting:
As secretary of the "Ezra Green Family Association,'.' ln,^!
conformance with instructions at their late Reunion at Tren-J^
ton and Remsen, Oneida county, New York, July 4th to 6th,~*|
1893, it becomes my duty to send out a report of the proceed-^
ings of said 'meeting, and such other printed matter as is *%
deemed necessary.
The call for the Reunion of the Greens and their descend-
ants was made in a general invitation two years ago, for allv
old settlers of Remsen, and school pupils of Broughton Green
to meet the 4th and 5th of Jul)'. Of old settlers the call was
to the Roots, Kents, Greens, Teffts, Jones and others.
Broughton W. Green spent some weeks prior to the date in
having notices and invitations sent out far and near, putting
him to considerable trouble and expense, for which, so far, he*>^
has only our heart-felt thanks.
At the gathering the descendants of Ezra Green resolved
themselves into an organization, and propose hereafter to be.;t|
independent in their meetings, and strive to preserve the,'J|
history of its ancestors, as shall be revealed in the coming"
Reunions.
On July 4th Broughton Green held a very sociable reunion
of his old friends and school pupils at Bion Kent's grove,
some five miles north of Remsen. A number of th* Green ^
they were introduced to each oth-
descendants being present
er and called upon to assist in the general exercises of the oe-
Owen Evans, of Remsen
an old pupil, officiated as
casion.
president of the day,
President Evans read the letters of regret received. They
were all full of memories of bygone days, and interesting.
Those sending them were C. G. Root, Minneapolis, Minn :
H. G. Bullock! North Western; .Parker W. Tefft, Kensing
ton, 111.; Mrs. Jane Jones Lloyd, Oswego; H. O. Jones. Clin V- J
Enelewood. 1
ton, Iowa; Miss Austis Tefft.
C. White, M. D., Rochester. N. Y., B. D
III; Mrs. Cyntha A. Wood. New York City; Mrs
Mix neeJAnn Evans, Rochelle, 111., and' David H
Chicago, Illinois.
, Mrs. Miranda^
Root, Chicago, I
George •■a^r
Jones,
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After the letters were read, a recess of one hour was an-
nbanced, when all- present formed themselves into small..
groups and partook of lunch. Everybody was in a remines- ,
cent mood and the stories recited of the days at school when
Mr. Green taught were many and thoroughly enjoyed. Sev-
eral had brought with them to show friends, old relics, some
of them very old and of historic interest. John R. Price had
a horn handled, three bladed knife, which had been the.- prop
erty of Baron Steuben, a silver spoon, which had been pre-
sented to Kzra and Amy Green when they were married in
Litchfield. Conn., in 1776, was exhibited by Charles R. Green,
of Lyndon. Kansas, and was the subject of much interest to
the representatives' of the Green family present. The oldest
relic shown, however, was that of Silas Kent, of this village,
which was an old fashioned cane bottomed arm chair, which
had been the property, of John Kent, of pre-revolutionary
limes. Another relic shown was an old spelling book which
had been used in district No. 3, 71 years ago. This was the$
property of Dwight C. Kilbourn, clerk of the superior court
Of Litchfield count)-, Conn., who said jocosely in a, speech he
delivered that he made the journey from his home in Connect-
icut here purposely to allow his relatives to see this' rare old
book.
The, noon hour' was then spent in a very happy manner.
iVv the way, a refreshment booth had been erected on the
grounds and attendants dispensed lemonade? gratuitously to
all who desired the cooling beverage. Candies, fruits and
ire cream were also, to be had. There were swings, too. thatj
the. .younger folks might enjoy themselves, which they did,
having a good time.
Promptly at 1 o'clock I Yes. Evans again called the assem-
blage to order. The choir sang "My Country, 'tis of Thee,"
.etc! in a truly patriotic patriotic spirit, Miss Susie Hilton pre-'
siding at the organ, after which, responding to the call of the
president, Mr. Green ascended the platform and feelingly said
that it gave him much pleasure to meet again so many of his
•old pupuls. friends ami relatives, adding in conclusion that In-
appreciated more thrtn words could express the kindly greet-
ings and tributes 'of respect, Mr. Green had not a prepared
■speech and spoke brielly. yet warmly.
I he next speaker was DwightC. Kilbourn, of Conn., iriand-
son oi Euraha Green, Mr. Kilbourn possesses a happy man-
ner and is a pleasing talker, i lie referred humorously to the'
laughable incidents of the day which . he had observed, and
paid a glowing tribute to the disrrict schools, remarking that
from them came Garfield and Hayes, lie also, before" coi-k"
eluding, suggested that it was Independence day. and with a
patriotic ardor eulogized our country's Hag— old' glory— which,
waved in the breeze beside him in honor of the day. ' At the'
request, of friends he read the following poem composed 'by'
him while enroute from home. It gives an, account of the:
trials and emigrations of Ezra Green and is of
THE WEARING O'
ana is oi great interest
THE GREEK"
Erom the old steady habit land,
Willi people sharp and keen,
I've come to join this happy band,
Who are. a wearing o' the Green.
Erom hilly Bantam, rough and cold,1
With lake of silver)' sheen,
I've come* to greet you.- young and old,
Who are a wearing o' the Green.
rrbrn the land of nutmegs wooden,
I would with you convene.
And eal your cakes and "piuklen," •
While yoVrtia wearin o' the Green;
What made our father move a,way?
"lis very strange I ween,
That they should from the homestead stray,
While a wearing o' the Green.
What made old Ezra emigrate?
lis plainly to be seen :
1 le wanted room — a larger state —
For those a wearing o' the Green.
And so he left the Beth'lem hill, .
No fairer e'er was seen,
With rippling brook and busy mills,
All clad in living Green.
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*And while he fit thi Britishers.
And came out lank and lean,
Starved in prison by those wicked curs,
Who don't like wearing o' the Green.
He doubtless thought to Vet away
From them all slick and clean;
So we would celebrate the day,
By a wearing o' the Green.
And so among these fertile meads.
He pitched his tent between,
And raised the very choicest breeds,
For a wearing of the Green.
And here he lived 'till very old.
With truly solemn mein,
In summer's heat and winter's cold,
While a wearing o' the Green.
He was, no doubt, a man of prayer.
His wife a very queen,
A Church with him was ever there.
While bringing up the Green. <
The glorious tlag of stars and stripes, g
Of course, he'd often seen.
For he suffered back of prison bars,
But not for wearing o' the Green.
He little thought, I'm very sure.
Of seeing such a scene,
Or that he'd need an August cure,
While a wearing o' the Green.
1 s'pose there's been some mighty men,
Sprung from this ancient Green,
There may be one, there may be ten.
All Wearing o' the Green.
May we all meet some future day,
Tho' ages intervene.
,.And greet again this blest array,
Redeemed by wearing 6', the Green, :
Following the reading-1 of the poem Richard J. Thoma;
made a characteristic address and a poem discriptive of Mr.
Green as a teacher, which was well received.
Others who delivered brief addresses were fabez H. [ones.
of.l'tica; John R. Price, of this place; C. R. Careen, of Lyndon, ;.;.
Kansas, a nephew of Broughton Green; and the venerable?
Silas Kent, of this village, all of whom expressed sentiments
Highly enthusiastic of Mr. Grenn.
President Evans, in calling upon the several gentlemen
mentioned to ascend the stage and speak, made appropriate
remarks, performing the duties of his office to the satisfaction
of all present
After the choir hail sung, "When we gather at the river."
Prof. F. V Kent, of Boonville, delighted the gathering with :
an instrumental selection, admirably executed, 'which conclud-
ed the exercises of the day.
Among those present from a distance, besides Dwight C.
Kilbourn. clerk of the- superior court of Litchfield count}',
Conn., Jabez Jones, of Utica, and Charles R. Green* of Lyn-v$
don, Kansas. • cousin of Mr. Green, whom we have already;^
mentioned, were 1 larvey Phelps, of Carthage, Chandley L.>v>t,<
Phelps, of Alder Creek, Mr and Mrs, Wheeler, of Boonville, '
gret suggest, in vita-
and many others. As the letters ol
tions had been sent to all of the old students who could be
located, ft was interesting to observe that four generations':
of the Kent family were represented, and Silas Kent, theold-gj
est descendant living.. who is in his 87th year, and hale- and'
hearty, seemed proud of his years.
A brief sketch of Mr. Green's ancestors may lie of interest."
Many years ago there were in the Green and Church fami-
lies a large number who were successful teachers and patnjul
ots. They.?. were of the noble Puritan stock who settled at'
Bethlehem. Connecticut. Samuel and Sarah Church were
the great grand parents of B. W. Green. Joshua Church, a
son of Samuel and Sarah Church, was a captain in the. revo- •
lutionary army, and Ezra Green, grandfather of B. W. Green,'
was also a soldier of the revolution. Eleazer Green, the far,
ther of B. W. Green, was born in the town of Steuben, where
his father settled on the removal from Connecticut in. 1S96 -
,-He subsequently moved t > the northern part of the town of
3s
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Remsen, and there lived with his family until 1847, when he
removed to Steuben and there resided up to the time of .his.,-'
'death, September 11, 1884. His wife, Silvina Kent, was a
sister of Chester G- and Silas Kent, of Remsen. and was an ;
estimable lady. Eleazer Green, though a farmer by occupa- ■
tion, commenced teaching when 19 years of age. His son, 2
Brpughton W. Green, after struggling hard to secure an edu-$*
cation, commenced to teach in 1844-45. He was- so success-'-
'ful that he followed his vocation for several years, teaching1
in the covered bridge district in 1845-46, and in the Kent dis-
trict in 1849. Besides being successful in teaching his pupils
he also succeeded to a remarkable degree in securing their /:/fe§
good will and regard as was shown by the addresses made;.-
and letter read at the reunion.
According to arrangements, descendant of the old settlers ', \
gathered at the hotel of Adam Griffith. Trenton, on the morn
ing of July 5th. With the exception of Silas Kent and daugh-
ter, Bion Kent, of Honnedago, Chester Kent, of Meriden, . '
Connecticut, Mrs. A. B. Osgood and mother, Mrs. M. F;
Tufts, of Verona, New York,, the half hundred or more indi-
viduals present were the Green descendants, and as the cor-
respondent of the Utica Daily Gazette made a report in his
paper, we copy it verbatim;
; GREKN FAMILY REUMOW .
"lIKI !> AT TRENTON AM) RKMlHKN VKSTERDAV — THE DESCENDANT*
OK K/RA GREEN WHO WERE PRESENT.
* One of the oldest and best known families, -and one whose
history is closely- identified with Remsen's prosperity, is the,
Green family. For nearly a century the various members of
this family have lived in Remsen and the surrounding sections,
and have contributed materially to the advancement of the
town. The first member of the family from whom those now"
livin<>- trace their genealogical history, was Ezra Green, born
in Bethlehem, .Connecticut in 1754. In '79.' with his wife/
Amy Church Green. Ezra Green moved to Remsen and set-
tled'near where the town line of Steuben now is. To Ezra
'. and Amy Green ten children were born, the children and
• •rand children of whom were present at the reunion yesterday;
. * 3<3 .
The several branches of the family include the Greens, Rents',
Tufts, Phelps, Smiths, L'renchs, Rootsand Dodges, nearly ev-
ery one of which had some representative present yesterday^?
The reunions were first commenced at the suggestion of
Hroughton W. Green, one of the oldest and most prominent.'
of the living- members of the family.
i he members of the family held "two meetings yesterday.
one in the morning at Trenton, and the other in the afternoon,
at Remsen. Those who came to the Griffiths hotej in Tren-*.
ton were most representatives of the Kent. Green and Root
branches. At this meeting a letter was read showing the ser-.
vice of Kzra Green, the facts for which had been gather-:
edfrom the records on file in the office of the war department.
It showed that Kzra Green, the grandfather of B. W.Green,-*
and the progenitor of the family, had been a regularly enlisted,
soldier and active participant in the revolution. He enlisted
in 1775 as a private in Captain David. Hinman's company, of
Colonel Hinman*s regiment, and served till November, 1775,:'
• At the beginning of 1776 he joined Colonel Phillip Bradley's
rrgiment, "serving six months. In 1777 he enlisted in Colo-?
he] Mosely's regiment, and after being mustered out of ser-.
vice here, he again re-enlisted under Captain Hinmanat Dan-'
burv, Connecticut. For this service the goverment in 1&3-H
granted an annual pension of $47. oS to his widow, Amy
Church Green.
Other letters were read by lion, 1). C. Kilbourn, of Litch-
field, Connecticut, relating to the condition of the family 40
♦and 50 years ago. The following were elected officers of the
family organization: President, Broughton W. Green, Har-
mony, N. Y.; Secretary, Charles R, Green, Lyndon, Kansas.
Before taking the 1:30 i\ m. train, for Remsen, the members'
of the family were; serenaded by the Trenton 1. O. O. Iv
band. •
The Remsen meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Alse-
mena Owens. This was chiefly a social gathering, and the
■ members passed their time in telling anecdotes relating to the
"family. During the. afternoon a pamphlet of about forty pa-
i-es containing" a genealogical sketch of the family was pre-
sented to those present. It was compiled by Charles R.
Green, of Lyndon, Kansas, and gives brielly and concisely a
^
history of the 'descendants of Ezra and Amy Green
Alter the exchange of reminescences and the discussion of
methods for the promotion of more active interest in the re-
unions, and after gating the spread prepared for them by
mrs, Ovyens, the several members separated, voting the re-
union of 93 one of the most successful that had yet been held.
Among- those present were: Brbughton W. Green, Harmo-
■ny; Mrs. Alsemena Owen.. Remsen; Mr. and Mrs. Chandler"
Phelps, Alder Creek; Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler and son, Boon-
ville; Harvey Phelps, Carthage; Mrs. Helen Phelps, Alder
Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Adam Griffiths and family, Mrs. Susan
I Mealus. Prospejt; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel French, Mrs. Robert'
Skinner, and family, Trenton; Silas Kent and daughter, Rem-
sen: Mrs. M. F. Tufts and daughter. Verona; Mrs. C. S.
/Wood. New York; Chester Kent Meriden, Connecticut;
Hon. I). C. Kilbourn. Litchfield, Connnecticut; Charles R.
Green, Lyndon Kansas,"
Before leaving the subject of this July 5th day's proceed--'
' ings at Trenton. I would remark that the gathering of the ;
Greens at Trenton first, instead of Remsen," the old' home of
the revolutionary grandfather, was to accommodate the five
families living in » and near there, viz: Mrs. Sarah Ann
French. Mrs. Catharine Griffiths. Mrs. Josephine Skinner,
Mrs M.aryetta. Rich and Mrs. Susan Mealus, daughters of'
L/ra Green Jr.. who with their families numbered some 35 or
40. And the adjourned meeting in the i>. \i. to Uemsen was
to give the relatives around there an opportunity to come it.
..Hereafter Remsen will be the place of meeting, and some
church or public hall be secured so that sessions for business
can be held at regular hours, once a day during the assem-
H.ly. . .
At an adjourned session of the Green family; held in Rem- .
sen July 6, 1893. the following resolutions were adopted:
Ivksoi.vici), That another meeting of the Green descendants
be held at Remsen in three years. The month of September
being the time in the year that so many of our ancestors have ,
gone to join in that grand reunion abrne, we do recommend
that that month be selected and the date of the month chosen'
-Avhen the notices are sent out by the secretary in. 1896.
Ri:soi.vK.n, Thai Lleazer ( ireen, Ksq., of Jamestown,, New
4"
York, grandson of Ezra and Amy Church Green, of* Revolu- H
tionary days, in memory of whom this association is founded,
be asked to prepare and deliver such an address as will be.
&. suitable to the -occasion.
Resolved, That pur secretary be authorized to prepare;and
1 send forth to every descendant of this family, who have at-
tained their majority, living- in this United States, a sheet con- j
taining the proceedings of this meeting of July 4, 5 and 6,
I 1893, at Remsen and Trenton, the addresses of all adult de-
scendants, as far as known, and such other printed matter as
is appropriate and within our means.
Resolved, That everyone is requested to contribute some-*
thing in money to defray expenses, and it is the intention of
this association to publish a history and genealogy of the
(ireen family in the' near future, we do request that all mate-
rial in shape of old letters, records, relics and pictures of
said family be brought forth, and the existence of such arti-
' cles be communicated to the secretary or president.
C. U. Green, Secretary. B. W Green, President.
Lyndon, Kansas. Remsen, New York.
At the same time and occasion the Kent family association
resoived that they would hold their reunion at the same place
Jm and conform to the same date, and that Eleazer Green. Esq.,
whose mother was a Kent, be requested to embody in his ad-
dress the family history of the Kent family, which for the last
z 100 years has been so closely united with that of the Greens
in Remsen. • Silas Kent, President. Remsen, New York.
• Bion H. Kent, Secretary. Honnedaga. New York.
The Hoonville Herald gave the use of its columns to any
and 'all reports that Were made of this Green Family Reunion,
and arrangement will be made with them when our next meet-
ing convenes at Remsen in [896 to have a full report, names
|| of those present and a synopsis of the addresses printed and
mailed to all who so provide. The following is taken from
fev*the issue of July 13th. 1893. as being of interest to those who
■ I -..-■.. wer(jV absent, and giving in a condensed form many facts
pertaining to the Green family:
■r-
Si'akks From tnfc RecknT Reunion at Rkmskv. '
Rkmskn, July 1 2. --Hon. D. C. Kilbourn. who came from
Litchfield, Conn., found in addition to his Green family par-
entage that his wife formerly had relatives who made Oneida
county their home, viz: Isaac Hopper. .He also discovered'
the beauties of this suburb to the Adirondack region and ex-
" | pects to return in the near future with his lady for an outing.
The past week was a great season for old relics, old family
letters and "Ye olden times" generally. With. I). C. Kilbourn.
of .Connecticut, and C. R Green, of Kansas, both enthusias-
tic collectors, and the latter a genealogist, relics were pretty
;,, ^well brought to the front. We trust that the" Roots, -Rents,
Thomases. Daytons, Tefts, Mitchells and others of the first
settlers of the old hills, whose descendants are in the east .and
west, will favor us with family visits and we will gladly show
you our antiquities.
i^.Mrs. Cyntha A. Wood, a lady of high standing and a mem-
| ber of scientific clubs of New York, who, as great granddaugh-
ter of Ezra Green, when a girl trod the byways -at Remsen,
;'. found full scope for her tastes in Botanical research here, and
we shall not be surprised to see her and her children back to
spend a summer vacation in'our midst. ' She visited Trenton
balls, Steuben monument and the country around. '
Charles R Green, of Kansas, the secretary; of the1 Green
family association, departed Friday westward with a pleasant
impression of this his first visit in Oneida county, and he has
improved it well as a collector. He took with him an" old
| fashioned leather-covered, brass:studdcd trunk, filled with
* trophies of a week's work in Remsen and Steuben. The
trunk was presented him by Hon. Chandley L. Phelps, of A I-',
der Creek, who, fifty-three years ago got it of C. R. Green's'
father, Elias Green, in Ohio to bring Home hisjtraps in when
out there in the service of the 'Toledo and Wabash Canal"
Packet company, a youth of 20 years.
, Mrs. John |. Owens' home in t Remsen was the scene of
much activity last week. She is now in her 78th year, a
' granddaughter of Ezra Green, the proud possessor of Grand-
mother Am)' Church Green's golden beads and the only liv-
ing child of I3olmri and lletsy Green Smith living here. Her
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comfortable home was thrown open to the use of the family,
descendants, 20 or more being- present the afternoon of the
fifth.
When the adjourned meeting at Trenton came to Remsen,
.'this was also made the home of those from abroad while here,
and "Cousin Alsemena" got about, as spry as a mother at fif-
ty. Her son Augustus is absent this summer in an office in
'.he. New York building at the World' Fain
,~JThe Phelps family* met at their brother's residence near
Remsen during the reunion. Harvey Phelps, of Carthage.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler and son Clark, of Boonville, Chand-
ley L. Phelps and lady, of Alder Creek, and Nathan C. Phelps,
at whose house they met. Their history is one of interest.- for
until their sister Amy C. Phelps Morgan's of Carthage, died,
September. 1892, this family circle of Harvey and SallyGreen
Phelps' children had been unbroken, Ann's age at death was
76. The average age of the four remaining is more than 72
years Nathan is suffering- from a recent stroke of paralysis,
but recovered enough to enjoy the. visit of kinspeople.
It is thought by the'secretary. Charles R. Green, of Lyn-
don, Kansas, thai there are about 380 living descendants of
. Hzra and Am)' Green, who were; married during the Revolu-
tionary war, and who in Remsen and Steuben sent ten child-
ren forth to people the earth 100' years ago. Of the Sally
Phelps branch there are 36 living* descendants, Kzra Green jr..
36. Hohan Smith 44, Charles Green 41.. The six other branch-
es have not been looked up closely enough to report carefully
on.
The visiting cousins from abroad were right royally entefr
tained at Trenton by the Hzra Green daughters the da)- of the
reunion there.-; Adam Griffiths threw open his hot I and at
least 30 were seated at the first table and the younger cousins
|Uid children came afterwards there must have been a score
"or two. Altogether the. cousin Green' Griffiths made usj very
welcome. Sarah Ann Green French assisted as did others.
Then that good. opcnhanded*cousin'-in-la\v. Daniel French.
took us to view the Trenton Palls, and all the country, around,
in his carriage, making two trips to Remsen. ,
1 11 W. Green would like to procure a Sanders reader. No. Y
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According to instructions, in due time I cdmmunicatetl with
lileazer Green Esq.. of Jamestown, New York. His answer
as follows, gives the association something deffinite to work -j
upon
JAMESTOWN, N. Y„ August 2 1, 1893.
c. r; green,
Lyndon, Kansas.
Dkak Sir and Kinsman:
1 have received yours of recent date containing the
information that I had been selected to deliver the address at
the Green and Kent family reunion in September. 1896, and
containing also the formal invitation to do so. from you as sec-
retary of the organization.
I feel much honored by this mark of consideration; and
would be , indeed ungrateful should 1 decline the invitation
without a very substantial reason. I, therefore, promise to be
with you on that occasion, un less Time, who undoubtedly has
many things in store for me during the three intervening
years, of which I do not now know, shall then have ordered
otherwise.
1 trust, however, that you will not expect me to make the
address of the reunion. I promise, however to say some-
thing.
Again thanking you. and as well those who were with you
in extending the invitation, I am.
Very Truly Yours.
El.EAZER GkKK.V.
Hroiiciitox \V. Gree'x, Remsen. N, Y.
President of the Ezra Green Family Association.
Charles R. Green, Lyndon, Kansas, Secretary
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